Friday, September 24,
The Karnataka Government’s restriction on mining and transportation of Iron ore has had little impact on the traffic throughput of Mormugao port whose single largest item of traffic is Iron ore.
Mormugao is the country’s largest Iron ore exporting port. “Out of 54 million tonnes of Iron ore exports by two ports in Goa, namely, Mormugao and Panjim, in 2009-10, the share of Karnataka Iron ore was only six million tonne,” said, Mr Praveen Agarwal, Chairman, Mormugao port.
“In other words, the bulk of Iron ore shipped through Goa’s ports was sourced from mines located in the State itself.” Mr Agarwal, however, could not specify how much Iron ore was sourced from Karnataka which his port had handled.
Despite the non-availability of Iron ore from Karnataka currently, the Mormugao port handled more Iron ore exports in the first five months of the current fiscal vis-à-vis the same period last year — 13.1 million tonnes, an additional 1.2 million tonne from previous year.
Source: The Business Line
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